{"id":8115,"date":"2023-02-02T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reanfoundation.org\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:08:30","slug":"identify-address-unmet-patient-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reanfoundation.org\/identify-address-unmet-patient-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving to Meet the Unmet Needs of Patients to Drive Better Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last two years have been a good learning experience at <\/span>the REAN Foundation<\/span><\/a>. I want to share my learning and get your feedback on how we can do better to increase the impact of our mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

REAN started with care at home in mind, mostly catering to individuals suffering from chronic conditions (primarily Non-Communicable Diseases - NCDs). Since we launched in the midst of COVID in early 2020, we were quickly sent to the drawing board to consider communicable diseases as well. How can an organization so young and small tackle such a huge problem? We decided to use two broad principles with patients in mind to address the combined need.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Identify unmet needs of patients in the care spectrum that may not be addressed by the mainstream.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Focus on the fundamental building blocks that can be used to build value-added, health condition-specific services customized for each patient.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Unmet Needs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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    Thanks to the healthcare leaders (public and private sector) and media, it is amply clear and well accepted that health inequity is a major issue around the world and is only growing in spite of the pumping billions of dollars into the health systems. Why is so much money not making things better or by some measures even making things worse? In a nutshell the answer is that most of us only care about our health (reactively) while we are sick.The providers (physicians and hospitals) also have limited resources and incentives to care for us while we are healthy (i.e keep us from getting sick). Most of us lead a busy life with little time to focus on staying healthy and preventing disease, this results in us getting sick. We then visit a provider and get well, and then return to our busy lifestyle that makes us sick again. This vicious cycle seems impossible to break. How can we convert this to a virtuous cycle?<\/p>\n

    We started by looking at what we see as a Triple-A problem - Awareness, Access and Adherence.<\/em><\/p>\n